Documentation of Michiel Cottaar’s code

general utilities

mcot.utils

Script interface for all mcot submodules

mcot.maths

Math stuff

mcot.bibtex

Interface to Bibtex file

neuroimaging utilities

mcot.surface

Utilities for working with cortical meshes

mcot.cifti

CIFTI tools

neuroimaging applications

mcot.gcoord

Gyral coordinate system

mcot.dippi

Module to analyse DIffusion-Prepared Phase Imaging (DIPPI) data

General package

The personal utilities and libraries from Michiel Cottaar.

This code contains many different packages which can either be installed separately using pip install mcot.<package> or as one whole pip install mcot.

Command line scripts

Command line scripts are all available through a single executable: mcot . This executable will be installed irrespective of the package you install (it is part of mcot.utils, which is required by all other packages). You can run a specific script using:

mcot $SCRIPTNAME

Many scripts are grouped together, in which case they can be called as:

mcot $GROUP $SCRIPTNAME

To list the installed scripts just type:

mcot

Developer’s notes

All packages are managed as a single monorepo available at https://git.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/ndcn0236/mcot. Testing and packaging is handled through the pants build system https://www.pantsbuild.org/. First make sure to be in the top-level directory and then run the following to test:

./pants test ::

or to build the packages:

./pants package ::

To bump the version number of a package run:

./bump_project.sh <package> <part>

where <part> is one of “major”, “minor”, or “patch”. This will bump the version of both the package and the mcot complete package, which can then be uploaded using twine.

Adding a new package

  1. Create a new directory in “src/mcot”

  2. Add a README.rst and VERSION file with a description and the version number.

  3. Use mcot.utils.build.load_info() in __init__.py to import the README and version number

    from mcot.utils.build import load_info
__doc__, __version__ = load_info(__name__)
del load_info

  4. Copy an existing .bumpversion.cfg from another directory and update the current version number

  5. Copy a BUILD script from another package (e.g., mcot.surface) and adjust the contents accordingly

  6. Copy BUILD script to test directory from test directory of another project (e.g., “src/mcot/surface/tests”)

  7. Add the package to the BUILD script in the top-level directory

  8. Add package requirements to “requirements.txt”

  9. Add the package to documenation in doc/index.rst

  10. Run the tests for this package

    ./pants test src/mcot/<package name>/tests/:

  11. Test the package build:

    ./pants package src/mcot/<package name>:

  1. Build the documentation

    python doc/publish.py